Everyone has heard of date palms to some extent. Dates originate from desert oases in North Africa or the Persian Gulf in southwest Asia. Jujube also has a long history. Jujube was introduced into China, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, Xinjiang and other provinces in the Tang Dynasty.

Dates also have a nice name "desert bread", which was named by Arabs. Jujube is natural, untreated and contains a lot of dietary fiber, vitamin C and vitamin B2.

Jujube contains a lot of fructose, which is sweet but not greasy. Under the same sweetness, fructose is much lower in calories than sugar, which is delicious and will not gain weight. It can also be used as a meal replacement to relieve hunger.

Dates can be eaten with peanuts, melon seeds, walnuts and other dried fruits. The flesh is sweet and chewy. You can also eat it in porridge. Two dates in a bowl of porridge can be sweeter than first love. Boiled dates are soft like noodles, and melt in the mouth. Dates were all the rage in China in 1960s and 1970s, so many elders had special feelings for them.

The Middle East has a dry climate and high temperature. When the fresh dates are ripe, they will naturally air-dry on the trees to form the dried dates we see.

After air drying, the jujube tree is brown, bright in color and thin in peel.

Bite open the peel, you can eat waxy, rustling pulp, and the taste is incomparable to many dry and hard fruits.

The fibers of date palm pulp grow longitudinally and tear longitudinally, and you can see that they are in a continuous shape.

These filamentary pulp also contain shredded sugar, which is really sweet to the heart.

Sweet dates are often mistaken for artificial preserves.

But in fact, all its sweetness comes from its own naturally formed fructose and glucose.

The sweetness of fresh jujube is high, and the sweetness can reach 60 degrees after air drying and dehydration.

After the date palm is diluted and mashed with a little water, its sweetness is still as high as 50 degrees by sweetness measurement.

So many people are puzzled. Jujube with such high sweetness has always been very popular in the fitness circle and slimming circle. Isn't dessert a weight loss nemesis?

This is because the sugar of date palm is mainly fructose, glucose and sucrose, which are natural monosaccharides and easy to digest and absorb.

In addition, it is rich in vitamins and dietary fiber.